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Incorporation December 18, 1987
Received 501(c)(3) in 1988
1988 Notes: We renovated space at the Organization of the NorthEast and
taught community art classes.
1987-88 Annual Budget $1,067
Artists Against Homelessness/at GOTA/11 artists,
32 works Dates: 5/6-6/4
Art of the T-shirt/at GOTA
26 artists, 52 works Dates: 7/14-9/5
Art of the T-shirt/at the Community Renewal Society
31 artists, 80 works Dates: 9/11-10/27
Street Life/at GOTA
11 artists, 30 works Dates: 10/14-11/7
Notes: Completed renovation and opened the "Gallery Off The Alley",
GOTA, at 5121 North Clark.
1988-89 Annual Budget $2,501
Sugarbowl Donut Shop/Clark & Lawrence
11 artists, 11 works Dates 6/23-7/15
Northside Federal Credit Union/5019 North Sheridan
12 artists, 13 works Dates 7/5-9/15
Magnolia Dry-clearners/1230 W. Wilson Avenue
11 artists, 15 works Dates 7/15-9/15
Edgewater Library/1210 W. Elmdale
16 artists, 22 works Dates 7/25-9/15
North Lake View Library/3756 North Southport
29 artists, 44 works Dates 8/15-9/15
Skokie Library/5215 Oakton
52 artists, 94 works Dates 9/23-10/13
City of Chicago Store/ from 10/15-11/2
46 artists, 91 works Dates 10/15-11/2
Notes: We relocated at the American Indian Center, rehabbing office
space and established the "Art of the T-shirt" in community locations
as an annual exhibit series.
1989-90 Annual Budget $6,196
Bezazian Library/1226 W. Ainslie
20 artists, 28 works Dates 6/11-9/12
Edgewater Library/1210 W. Elmdale
28 artists, 31 works Dates 7/10-6/12
North Lake View Library/3756 North Southport
19 artists, 29 works Dates 8/15-9/12
Mary-Arrchie Theater/731 W. Sheridan Rd.
20 artists, 20 works Dates 7/29-9/12
T-shirt Fashion Show/State of Illinois Center
Date: September 5 at noon
Harvest Exhibit/American Indian Center
71 artists, 117 works Date 10/5 Time 3-8:00
Notes: Led mural project at Arai Middle School. We took a slide show
of the "Art of the T-shirt" to five public schools. The "Art of the
T-shirt" threw its first Harvest Party.
1990-91 Annual Budget $7,191
Fashion Show/Daley Civic Center Plaza
25 works shown Date: January 6th at noon
Bezazian Library
20 artists, 27 works Dates: 6/11-9/12
Edgewater Library
17 artists, 29 works/ 7/16-9/12
Mary Arrchie Theater
13 artists, 17 works Dates: 6/29-9/12
North Lake View Library
17 artists, 28 works Dates: 8/13-9/12
Harvest Party Exhibit/at American Indian Center
61 artists, 125 works Date: October 3rd
Notes: With short funds and artist support we built a screen print
workshop and began teaching artists how to print their work. This work continues on a slow affordable level today, building momentum quietly.
1991-92 Annual Budget $15,570
Edgewater Library
23 artists, 56 works Dates: June 15-September 15
Harvest Party/at American Indian Center
50 artists, 79 works Date: October 16th
Chicago Cultural Center/77 East Randolph
39 artists, 56 works Dates: 11/6-11/31
Daley Civic Center Plaza
53 artists, 87 works Dates: 12/8-21/31
Notes: A successful panel discussion accompanied our Chicago Cultural
Center show. Showing through Dec. 31 is our longest season yet. Our
Screen Print Workshop was active all year round. We produced our first
catalog of designs but found ourselves too short of capital to reproduce it nor staff time to market it.
1992-93 Annual Budget $12,225
Skokie Library
64 artists, 103 works Dates: 3-29-4/29
Edgewater Library
18 artists, 37 works Dates: 6/15-9/10
North Lake View Library
20 artists, 25 works Dates: 8/10-9/10
Harvest Party/at American Indian Center
39 artists, 65 works Date: October 7
Propaganda Printing/2222 West Belmont
43 artists, 78 works Dates: December 1-4
Notes: Thin Canvas News, the newsletter for and by exhibiting artists,
produced four editions before volunteers, exhausted, returned to presenting our main program - the "Art of the T-shirt" exhibit series and marked this effort down to demonstrating another potential program feature for which funding is required to continue long-term.
idea.
1993-94 Annual Budget $20,193
Edgewater Library
19 artists, 32 works Dates: 6/1-9/16
North Lake View Library
20 artists, 30 works Dates: 7/26-9/16
Harvest Party/American Indian Center
33 artists, 76 works Dates: 10/7/95
Notes: Prepared a room as a computer lab and began to seek in-kind
donations of computers as a first step toward the long term goal of
developing a complete computer graphics lab.
1994-95 Annual Budget $9,592
Edgewater Library
21 artists, 37 works Dates: 6/1-9/21
North Lake View Library
16 artists, 26 works Dates: 7/27-9/21
Walking T-shirt Art Exhibit (test) 9/26
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/American Indian Center
31 artists, 63 works Dates: 9/28/96
Notes: We moved up to third floor of American Indian Center and fixed
rooms for a new office and a computer lab. We presented our first Cable TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago (330,000 households). We aired weekly (13 shows) July through September.
1995-96 Annual Budget $8,648
Edgewater Library
19 artists, 32 works Dates: 6/7-9/20
Bezazian Library
27 artists, 32 works Dates: 7/27-9/20
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
50 artist, 87 works Dates: 9/26-9/28
Notes: We received a free connection to the Internet from Loyola University. We presented our second Cable TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago (330,000 households). We aired weekly (13 shows) July through September.
1996-97 Annual Budget $8,971
Edgewater Library
Dates: 6/6-9/19
Uptown Library
Dates: 7/18-9/19
Bezazian Library
Dates: 7/25-9/19
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/25-9/27
Notes: We launched our website in mid-1998. We presented our third Cable TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago (330,000 households). We aired weekly (13 shows) July through September.
1997-98 Annual Budget $8,696
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/24-9/26
Notes: We postponed our community Library exhibits which after ten years have yet to be funded and focused on building our web site around ART-ACT, our Anti-Racist T-shirt Art Contest Tour. We presented our fourth Cable TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago (330,000 households). We aired weekly (13 shows) July through September.
1998-99 Annual Budget $10,740
ARC Gallery
artists, works Dates: 6/7-9/20
Ennui Cafe/Gallery
29 artists, 47 works Dates: 7/27-9/20
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/29-9/30
Notes: We completed our first ART-ACT contest on-line and established our name internationally. We presented our fifth Cable TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago (330,000 households) focusing our attention on the ART-ACT. We aired weekly (13 shows) July through September.
1999-2000 Annual Budget $8,400
Heartland Cafe
artists, works Dates: 9/01-10/01
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/28-9/29/2001
Notes: We continued our second two year length ART-ACT contest on-line, further establishing
our name internationally. We presented our sixth Cable TV series on Channel 21 in
Chicago (330,000 households) focusing our attention on our Web Site and teaching simple
HTML to beginners. We aired weekly July through September producing 13 shows.
2000-2001 Annual Expenditures $6,800
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/27-9/29/2002
Notes: We completed our second two year length ART-ACT contest on-line and began
ART-ACT III, further establishing our name internationally. We presented two Cable TV
series this year, our seventh year of presenting a TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago
(330,000 households). Our January-March series called "How to Computer" starred Alan Turner
and answered computer questions of viewers. We used our Web Site to teach simple HTML to
beginners weekly during July through September.
2001-2002 Annual Expenditures $10,113
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/19-9/21/2003
Notes: We continued our third two-year length ART-ACT contest online, ART-ACT III,
further establishing our name internationally. The website received between 25,000-35,000
hits per week. We produced "Printing T-shirt Art I," a 13 part series explaining
how to screen print art on t-shirts while showcasing the artists from our
"Screen Print Workshop for Artists." It is eight years that we've presented a
TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago, potentially reaching 330,000 households each year.
(330,000 households). We used our Web Site to post diagrams and plans for a
low-cost screen-print workshop that artists (anybody) can build themselves.
2002-2003 Annual Expenditures $10,202
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/17-9/19/2004
Notes: We completed our third two-year length ART-ACT contest
online, ART-ACT III, further establishing our name internationally
and began ART-ACT IV. The website received between 27,000-32,000 hits
per week. We produced "Printing T-shirt Art II," a 13 part series
explaining how to screen print art on t-shirts while showcasing the
artists from our "Screen Print Workshop for Artists." It is nine
years that we've presented a TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago,
potentially reaching 330,000 households each year.
(330,000 households). We used our website to post diagrams and plans
for a low-cost screen-print workshop that artists (anybody) can build
themselves while inviting artists to free hands-on training in
screen-printing.
2003-2004 Annual Expenditures $9,344
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 9/16-9/18/2005
Notes: We continued our fourth two-year length ART-ACT contest online, ART-ACT IV, further establishing our name internationally and began ART-ACT IV. The website received between 30,000-32,000 hits per week. We produced "Printing T-shirt Art III," a 13 part series explaining how to screen print art on t-shirts while showcasing the artists from our "Screen Print Workshop for Artists." It is ten years that we've presented a TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago, potentially reaching 330,000 households each year. (330,000 households). We used our website to post diagrams and plans for a low-cost screen-print workshop that artists (anybody) can build themselves and to offer artists t-shirts for sale to support our cause. We provided artists with free hands-on training in screen-printing.
2004-2005 Annual Expenditures $ 10,111
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 10/13-10/15/2006
Notes: We completed our third two-year length ART-ACT contest online, ART-ACT III, further establishing our name internationally and began ART-ACT IV. The website received between 27,000-32,000 hits per week. We produced "Printing T-shirt Art II," a 13 part series explaining how to screen print art on t-shirts while showcasing the artists from our "Screen Print Workshop for Artists." It is eleven years that we've presented a TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago, potentially reaching 330,000 households each year. (330,000 households). We used our website to post diagrams and plans for a low-cost screen-print workshop that artists (anybody) can build themselves and to offer artists t-shirts for sale to support our cause. We provided artists with free hands-on training in screen-printing.
2005-2006 Annual Expenditures $ 8,813
T-shirt Art Harvest Party/at Chicago American Indian Center
Dates: 10/5-10/7/2007
Notes: We continued our fifth two-year length ART-ACT contest online, ART-ACT V, further establishing our name internationally. The website received between 35,000-36,000 hits per week. We produced "Printing T-shirt Art IV," a 13 part series explaining how to screen print art on t-shirts while showcasing the artists from our "Screen Print Workshop for Artists." It is twelve years that we've presented a TV series on Channel 21 in Chicago, potentially reaching 330,000 households each year. (330,000 households). We used our website to post diagrams and plans for a low-cost screen-print workshop that artists (anybody) can build themselves and to offer artists t-shirts for sale to support our cause. We provided artists with free hands-on training in screen-printing. We initiated the "Free Speech Artists Movement" to liberate Chicago artists from the City's oppressive peddlers license scheme which ignores artists free speech rights to sell their art in Chicago's public spaces.
2006-2007 Annual Expenditures - About $10,000 (exact figures availible by March 2008)
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workshops and gallery open to the public on more than a very,
very informal and select basis. Scroll up to see we've done our
job. Every exhibit above was free. All our staff unpaid. We work
this job for you and another to pay the rent. Please enjoy
and question those who would budget the arts out of your lives!
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